Guo Zexin realized what was happening and turned around to see that the door had been violently pushed open by Xiong Lin.
The girl inside the exposed corner of the iron cage had vanished.
Guo Zexin looked at Xiong Lin in horror.
At this moment, Xiong Lin was furious. He glared fiercely at Guo Zexin and said, word by word, "Come on, explain to me what you did last night?!"
"Sleeping so soundly, you couldn't even hear someone coming out of the cage?!"
Guo Zexin shrank back, thinking to himself, "This is it, Xiong Lin is definitely going to kill me now."
Then he suddenly remembered a sharp pain from last night. At first, he thought he was dreaming, but now he realized he must have been beaten.
Guo Zexin quickly explained, "Brother, I didn't do it on purpose. Someone knocked me unconscious last night!"
"I had only dozed off for a moment, and I woke up when I heard the noise! But there were too many of them, and they knocked me unconscious from behind..."
Guo Zexin's voice grew softer and softer, while Xiong Lin's gaze became increasingly dangerous, as if Xiong Lin was about to tear him apart at any moment.
Xiong Lin snorted coldly. The important thing now is to bring the person back. If those women expose the matter, how will they explain it to the Goddess?
Guo Zexin didn't dare to say a word, since the person had been lost while he was in charge, so he could only keep a low profile.
Xiong Lin didn't dare to be too ostentatious, so he could only take the photos of the people and ask them one by one.
The girls had already left South Town when the town gates opened.
They went in the direction Shen Zhiyi had indicated.
Before coming to the Lin family, they had already asked two or three other families, and all of them said they had never seen him.
Xiong Lin is on the verge of collapse. In five days, the goddess will come to take him away.
Not only did he fail to capture all the people, he also lost sight of the few he had initially apprehended.
If the goddess found out, both he and Guo Zexin would lose their heads.
Lin's mother looked closely at the photo Xiong Lin was holding, then shook her head and said, "I've never seen it before."
Xiong Lin nodded, said nothing, and turned to leave.
Then, Shen Zhiyi called out to him.
"I've seen it."
Xiong Lin immediately turned around, his eyes fixed on Shen Zhiyi, "You've seen her before?! Where have you seen her before?!"
“I couldn’t sleep last night, so I got up and sat on the small terrace. I saw Aunt Lin leading a few girls past the Lin family’s house.”
Shen Zhiyi crossed her arms and said to Xiong Lin in a serious tone, "But they were too far away, I didn't hear what they were saying."
"Aunt Lin?!" Xiong Lin looked at Lin's mother.
Lin's mother was stunned for a moment, then sighed, "Aunt Lin has been missing since last night. I wanted to ask her to cook a late-night snack, but she just disappeared."
Xiong Lin was somewhat suspicious, his gaze sweeping back and forth between Shen Zhiyi and his mother.
"Hasn't your nanny been with you for a long time?"
“It has been a long time, but... as you know, after my husband died, our family had no source of income and relied entirely on our savings. After a while, I was afraid we wouldn't be able to afford her salary.”
At this point, Lin's mother sighed and didn't continue. She knew that saying so much was enough.
"What is your relationship with those girls? Why did Aunt Lin sneak away from the Lin family in the middle of the night to take them away?" Shen Zhiyi suddenly asked.
"I'd rather lose my job than not sneak away in the middle of the night."
Xiong Lin choked. How could he possibly admit that those were people he had captured?!
After hesitating for a long time, Xiong Lin finally blurted out, "Those girls are my and Guo Zexin's sisters. They came to Nanzhen to visit us."
Shen Zhiyi gave an understanding "oh" and then said, "Then you should hurry up and go find someone."
“Although Aunt Lin is usually a very nice person, we are worried that something might happen to her because of this sudden situation.”
Although Xiong Lin felt that something was not quite right, he did not think about it in detail; finding the person was the priority.
After confirming that Xiong Lin had left, Lin's mother and Shen Zhiyi returned to the Lin family home.
Lin's mother asked her, "Why would you say that to Xiong Lin?"
"Anyway, Aunt Lin is no good, and that Xiong Lin is also working for the Goddess. He didn't think it was wrong when I said that, which shows that the two of them don't know each other."
"Isn't it better not to know each other? Dogs fighting, how interesting!"
Shen Zhiyi felt that her idea was good, but fortunately, Lin's mother cooperated with her, which made Xiong Lin successfully suspect Lin's aunt.
Lin's mother breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that Shen Zhiyi was related to Xiong Lin's search for someone.
It wasn't that they were afraid Shen Zhiyi would cause trouble for the Lin family, but rather that Xiong Lin was not someone to be trifled with in Nanzhen.
If Shen Zhiyi, an outsider, were to cause any conflict, it would be difficult for the Lin family to protect her.
She has another daughter to raise, and as a mother, she can only be a little selfish.
Xiong Lin searched the entire South Town but couldn't find the girls who had run away. He was so angry that he cursed loudly in the courtyard.
Guo Zexin was given a thorough dressing-down by him.
"Tell me, what do we do now?!"
"Where can we find the person designated by the goddess?!"
Xiong Lin pointed at Guo Zexin's nose, almost furious, "If the goddess hadn't specified any birth date, it would have been easy to find her, but she just had to set this ridiculous birth date."
"I finally found a few, where am I supposed to find more now!"
Guo Zexin spoke up timidly, "Big brother, isn't that Lin family member also from out of town? Why not just trick her into coming here and ask about her birthday?"
"You think I don't want to?! She's already gone to the Lin family, how can I lie to her?!" Xiong Lin kicked Guo Zexin again.
After thinking about it, he still felt unsatisfied, so he kicked him again.
Guo Zexin clutched his kicked thigh, gasping for breath, but didn't dare utter a sound.
"Boss, does it have to be a woman? Can't it be a man?"
After Guo Zexin calmed down, he asked again cautiously.
Xiong Lin thought for a moment. The goddess didn't say anything, only that she wanted to capture people whose birth dates were similar. She only wanted to capture women because only women from other places could enter Nanzhen.
If they go outside Nanzhen to recruit people, regardless of gender, they should be able to gather 12 people quickly.
"You're quick-witted, kid." Xiong Lin didn't continue kicking Guo Zexin.
Guo Zexin breathed a sigh of relief. He was really afraid that Xiong Lin would beat him up again. He didn't have any real skills, and he only got involved with Xiong Lin because he was good at talking.
"Alright, hurry up and pack up, let's leave South Town."
Guo Zexin suddenly remembered something else, "Big brother, what should we do about that Aunt Lin that the Lin family mentioned?"
Xiong Lin spat. He hated Aunt Lin so much that his teeth itched. If he ever ran into her again, he would definitely kill her.
"Never mind that for now, the most important thing is to catch her and give Goddess an explanation," Xiong Lin said through gritted teeth. "As long as Aunt Lin is still in Nan Town, I'll kill her sooner or later."
The two packed up and left Nanzhen under the cover of night.
What they didn't notice was that after they left the courtyard, a snow-white fox jumped off the wall and headed towards the Lin family's house.
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